actor, filmmaker, cultural advisor, artist, writer
🗣️ french | english | syrian arabic – 👭🏽 identical twin – gnc
🎭 Salma N. in Shetland 6 & Wahida in Vögel at Theater Trier & “Noura” in Kingdom Uncovered
🎓 GFCA ‘19 & HEAD – BA directing ‘17 – SOAS – MA Cultural Studies ‘24 distinction
🐒 Partner Acrobatics qualified teacher ‘23
🎨 Collaborative artist with Traumascapes
feature in development, currently on hold
with the development support of the Migros Culture Percentage’s Story Lab
selected to Script Savages
After a few years of war in their country, a group of young Syrian friends decide to leave the Middle East and hit the road together to come to Europe. Through every step, their music and their friendship help them hold on.
– 33’ documentary (2017)
– Screened at Telluride 2017, Solothurner Filmtage 2018, FIPAdoc 2019,…
See me in Shetland 6 on BBC iPlayer and Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia on ITVx
2024 SOAS MA Cultural Studies graduate with distinction, focus on subversive storytelling in diasporic Syrian cinema. I work as an authenticity/sensitivity reader and am a collaborative artist with Traumascapes, I took part to designing the 2024 Lancet Psychiatry covers as part of their arts collective. Contact me for more information.
Examples of recent writing:
As an effort to expand my writing and performing capacities, I have been performing comedy since 2023, have been performing in English at the Royal Albert Hall with Arabs Are Not Funny, here’s a snippet. I am regularly performing in Arabic with Comedy Factoy 3arabi.
A poem I wrote in 2017 and performed in 2023.
I am currently learning to write for stage.
In my spare time, I sing and practise partner acrobatics. I teach it too!
